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For those unfamiliar, Sarah was twenty-three years of age when she disappeared, apparently without a trace, late on July 11, 1990 from Kananook Railway Station, which is in the suburb of Frankston North, in Melbourne.
She had been playing tennis with her friends in Richmond, and caught the train home with them. Her friend/s got off the Frankston train at Bonbeach, and Sarah stayed on another three stops until Kananook, where her car was parked. She was last seen alighting the train at Kananook and heading towards her car at approximately 10.20pm.
To this day, over 22 years later, it remains unclear what happened to her and who was responsible- although, obviously, it is more or less 100% certain that she was murdered. The only physical clue was bloodstains that were observed near her car.
It featured as the initial episode of the psychic TV series Sensing Murder in 2004- I have been unable to find it online, but I watched it and some others here might remember it too.
Four main theories have done the rounds:
1. Local junkies robbed and killed her by accident
2. Paul Denyer (who later murdered three girls in the area in 1993) killed her
3. That she intentionally disappeared (as some people suggest in every disappearance case)
4. That someone completely unknown and off the radar killed her
The third is so unlikely that it can immediately be discounted- she was murdered.
The Denyer theory, on the surface, might appear to be plausible, but the interesting thing is that Denyer has always maintained he had nothing to do with it- which is very much in contradiction with his blatant openness, and boasting, about his 1993 murders.
The first theory has credence, but could be difficult to get much traction on- to be blunt, there's a pretty good chance that junkies who frequented the Kananook area in 1990 are either long gone, or long passed from this world because of drug abuse, overdosing etc.
The fourth, well, who knows.
Here are a collection of a few articles and links to websites a simple Google search of 'Sarah MacDiarmid' brings up:
http://www.australianmissingpersonsregister.com/Macdiarmid.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/10/1089000397377.html
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/s...eaking-20year-anniversary-20100709-10463.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...ller-paul-denyer/story-fn7x8me2-1226120755868
Plenty more there if you Google them yourself.
A truly perplexing, and tragic, case.
She had been playing tennis with her friends in Richmond, and caught the train home with them. Her friend/s got off the Frankston train at Bonbeach, and Sarah stayed on another three stops until Kananook, where her car was parked. She was last seen alighting the train at Kananook and heading towards her car at approximately 10.20pm.
To this day, over 22 years later, it remains unclear what happened to her and who was responsible- although, obviously, it is more or less 100% certain that she was murdered. The only physical clue was bloodstains that were observed near her car.
It featured as the initial episode of the psychic TV series Sensing Murder in 2004- I have been unable to find it online, but I watched it and some others here might remember it too.
Four main theories have done the rounds:
1. Local junkies robbed and killed her by accident
2. Paul Denyer (who later murdered three girls in the area in 1993) killed her
3. That she intentionally disappeared (as some people suggest in every disappearance case)
4. That someone completely unknown and off the radar killed her
The third is so unlikely that it can immediately be discounted- she was murdered.
The Denyer theory, on the surface, might appear to be plausible, but the interesting thing is that Denyer has always maintained he had nothing to do with it- which is very much in contradiction with his blatant openness, and boasting, about his 1993 murders.
The first theory has credence, but could be difficult to get much traction on- to be blunt, there's a pretty good chance that junkies who frequented the Kananook area in 1990 are either long gone, or long passed from this world because of drug abuse, overdosing etc.
The fourth, well, who knows.
Here are a collection of a few articles and links to websites a simple Google search of 'Sarah MacDiarmid' brings up:
http://www.australianmissingpersonsregister.com/Macdiarmid.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/10/1089000397377.html
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/s...eaking-20year-anniversary-20100709-10463.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...ller-paul-denyer/story-fn7x8me2-1226120755868
Plenty more there if you Google them yourself.
A truly perplexing, and tragic, case.